As I wrote on page 365 consecutive days, and what came of it

Ponessa blogger Carolyn (Caroline Ponessa) filled one notebook page, every day throughout the year. Find out what it is and why she gave this method is ideal for perfectionists.

In October 2016 Caroline promised myself every day use up the page in Notepad. She did not set himself the task of recording all the minute details of his life, and just wanted to collect more materials for your blog. The result of this experiment was unexpected. Caroline wondered why there began to write, and she gives it. Perhaps its the small opening will be relevant for you.

Caroline Ponessa

Blogger.

I think if use up a page a day, for a year I have typed at least 10 new posts for the blog. Like many of my other suggestions, it was wrong. For a year, I wrote only a two accidents Lent - a quarter of what I produced in the previous four months. If I was a school report, there would have been noted: "Follow the instructions, but executes them with difficulty."

Despite the unimpressive number of publications, I sketched out more about a hundred drafts. Yes, hundreds of raw text, which I considered unfit for the eyes of readers. What I then wrote the rest of 265 days, you ask?

During this time, I wrote dozens of options cover letters for jobs for which I did not have, and one letter of thanks in response to a job offer. I wrote a greeting for my father and it bridesmaids (copied five times). I wrote down jokes that will not tell anyone, and letters that never send. I started to write the book, which most did not like to read, as well as the script for the film, for that would be received damning reviews. Some poems that would make you worry about my health. When I did not know what to write, I copied the words of your favorite songs again and again and again.

Most of these records - complete nonsense. Unlikely though how many of these 365 pages is valuable. I'd rather they burnt than re-read again. Most likely, I will do so.

Still, I'm glad I tried. Recently, flipping through the Twitter feed, I came across a hashtag #WhyIWrite (# pochemuyapishu). Reading these posts, I remembered why all wanted to start writing every day and why continue to do so in the future.

I write because I have something to say, and people do not always have the patience to listen. The paper also suffer, even if you write all day.

I am writing because I perfectionist and only my notes give me the feeling that I was in control of everything. In life, you can not go back and replace the words to more intelligent or funny. You can not delete all the stupid and tactless, said in a rush.

But most importantly, I am writing because such records - it is the only available method for me to understand everything that is happening now in the world. I will never find a perfect matching words to describe their thoughts and feelings, so be it. I will try again and again. Suppose I did not understand what is good, but perseverance does not hold me.